Originally Posted by
jolihokistix
Mostafa, Russia's aim is increasingly to divide and conquer.
Britain pulling out of leading a EU battle group means cracks in the alliance, which really cannot be bad news for Putin.
Arguably, setting up a competing structure with parallel CoC and potentially drawing on the same Orbat causes cracks in the first place. AS others have noted, NATO was set up to do the job properly in the first place.
Still, I look forward to advocates of NATO (in preference to the EU) being labelled as swivel-eyed little atlanticist Trumpophones (copyright NaB 2018) in the near future!